Normally, Jonny is on the “classy British actresses finally splitting with their bloated hack auteur husbands” beat, but finders keepers: The Hollywood Reporter is, um, reporting that Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky are divorcing after nine years of inexplicable union.

Nobutseriously, my issues with Requiem for a Dream are no doubt somewhat related to my having been an undergraduate during the early to mid aughts, which really puts a person off of a certain slice of the New Cult Canon (it took me a long-ass time to come around on Fincher, for reasons related less to Fight Club than people my age who really, really like Fight Club).

Haven’t seen The Fountain, but I pretty much liked The Wrestler (and think that Pi is kinda cute in its earnest grindcore pretentiousness) (and am looking forward to Black Swan for the anticipated similar histrionic miscalculations), though even the Rourke Show is not entirely bereft of Aronofsky’s mix of virtuosity and viscerality, which has always felt to me to be cult-courting and more than a little self-impressed.

Yeah, Fight Club came out while I was in college, and it took me awhile for the opposite: to realize that there are a bunch of tools my age who really, really like Fight Club (also the opposite of how, in the nerdy bubble of my friends who all, like me, thought A.I. was awesome, it took me a few months to figure out that wow, some people really hate the living shit out of that movie).

But anyway, The Fountain is really good! Even though it is, like all of Aronofsky’s movies before The Wrestler, 95% humorless.